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While not exactly a golden rule, it is known fact that if a movie does well in the box office, chances are good that it will be followed by sequel and more often than not, we’ve come to expect that the sequel won’t measure up to the original. Add a third movie to the mix and you’re just asking for trouble. With animated movies, the expectations are often even lower. (Is anyone really surprised that the Ice Age movies keep getting worse?) But sometimes, as is the case with the Disney/Pixar Toy Story movies, we’re pleasantly surprised. Now you can add How to Train Your Dragon to that short list too.

One thing that DreamWorks Animation has understood about this series is that the story comes first, the hijinks come later. The very first Dragon movie proved that way back in 2010 with a strong story and with each chapter that has come after it, that story just keeps getting better. What started out as a cute kid’s story has become a powerful trilogy. We've seen these chara…

While celebrities voicing animated characters are a dime a dozen, nobody can match the talents of famous voice talent artists like Mel Blanc, Clarence Nash, Thurl Ravenscroft and even Robin Williams. Unfortunately, we lost another voice talent recently: June Foray. While you didn’t see the actress much, you are well aware of the many characters she has voiced over the years.

Foray passed away on July 26, 2017, two months before she would have turned 100 years old. Foray began her long career starting with radio work when she was just 12-years-old. During the late 1930's, Foray starred in her own radio series, Lady Make Believe which help to launch her into making appearances on many other radio shows at the time. In the 1940’s, more than just her voice appeared in a few movies, but by then, her work as a voice artist really took hold.

Foray is known mostly for the different characters she has played for Disney, Warner Bros., Jay Ward and Water Lantz among others. For Disney, you may remember her for playing Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella, Squaw in Peter Pan, Witch Hazel in the Donald Duck cartoon, Treat or Treat and even Grandmotehr Fa in Mulan.

For Walter Lantz, Foray played numerous voices for the Woody Woodpecker cartoons including Woody’s niece and nephew, Splinter and Konthead. Warner Bros. hired her to play another Witch Hazel for a few Bugs Bunny cartoons and later took over the role of Granny from former voice artist Bea Benaderet. She worked a lot with Mel Blanc who voiced most Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and others. She also voiced the Chuck Jone’s Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and a similar voice for the scary Talky Tina doll in an episode of The Twilight Zone.

Of course, most people know Foray for playing the voice Rocky the Flying Squirrel on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show where she also played Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick. Foray continued to play the Warner Bros. and Jay Ward characters to as late as 2014 with her last works being the The Looney Tunes Show and another Rocky and Bullwinkle theatrical short.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since everything was awesome, at least in the world of Lego as seen in the original Lego Movie. Since then Lego-themed movies have been released, none of which have been as popular, lucrative or received as much praise from critics as the original.

Now the gang is back in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part but everything appears to be less awesome as Bricksburg has become Apocalypseburg and is getting worse when this world is threatened by Lego Duplo invaders from outer space. Still, just like is real life, Legos can always rebuild.

It takes a lot of physical and CGI Legos to create a movie. Here is a breakdown on how that looks:

2: The number of characters Chris Pratt, Stephanie Beatriz and Alison Brie play in the film. (Pratt plays Emmet and Rex Dangervest, Beatriz plays General Mayhem and Sweet Mayhem and Brie plays Unikitty and Ultrakitty)

3: The number of times Will Arnett has voiced the role of Batman in a Lego movie.

TVAmerica’s Got Talent: The Champions brought back 50 of the best acts from the different world versions of the show to compete one more time for the chance to win a really impressive (or tall) trophy, $25,000 cash and pretty incredible bragging rights. The two-hour presentation began with an hour full of filler of past acts, silly bits and interviews with the dozen remaining acts hoping to win.

Soon the 12 was whittled down to five including ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer, sand artist Kseniya Imonova, card magician Shin Lim, singer Cristina Ramos and comedian Preacher Lawson. And during the show’s last five minutes of the show the winner was revealed.